John Updike Quotes

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Topics

LifeThinkArtistSkillsWantOnly

Having a child is a lifetime commitment, the biggest one you can possibly make.

Jen Kirkman

CommitmentChildYouLifetimeMake

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

Jeff Buckley

BecomeFirstPhysicalMusicianAlbum

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Ama Ata Aidoo

GodPeopleBoredWormsWhoEven

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Robbie Williams

I AmYouPersonKnowWantHear

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

Mary-Kate Olsen

SchoolI AmBadI CanNervousTest

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Monica Edwards

TechnologyAgeTimeNowOldStuff

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

Montel Williams

BeginningPeopleImportantWildlife

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

Jean Chatzky

PeopleHideStopDebtHappenSell

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

Christopher Meloni

BestJobCoolBlessedSayingYou

A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part yet, and I'm afraid that by the time I am, I'm going to be too old anyway.

Chrissy Teigen

TimeI AmRecognitionReadyKind

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

Bryan Batt

LoveGodGreatPeopleBetterGay

Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.

Tyler Winklevoss

GoldBetterBasicThesisBitcoin

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